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more about Alice Frey

Alice Frey is a Belgian painter, born in Antwerp in 1895. She was initially trained as a dressmaker, a trade that she shortly taught as a school teacher. When the First World War broke out in 1914, her family moved to Ostend, a city along the Belgian coast. There she met James Ensor, 35 years older than she, today a renowned artist who painted in an expressionist and surrealist style an . . . read more..